Important Announcement - Please Read

A New Orthodox Marketplace Website is Coming!

The Orthodox Marketplace online web store and the Department of Religious Education's catalog store are in the process of merging operations.

While we are working out the details of this transition, the Orthodox Marketplace website will suspend sales functionality of the site. Customers will be able to browse the catalog, log in and check on the status of outstanding orders and order history (including downloads).

However, the cart and checkout features will be disabled.

If you wish to purchase items in the interim, a subset of our product catalog is still available from our Amazon Storefront.

You may also wish to purchase items from the Department of Religious Education Resource Guide, available below. The DRE can be reached via their toll-free number: 1-800-566-1088.

We expect the new Orthodox Marketplace and Resource Center website to launch later this summer.

Sacred Treasures [Audio CD]

Sung by the finest Russian and Bulgarian choirs, this extraordinary collection of transcendent prayers and hymns highlights a timeless Russian tradition of faith and devotion. For sheer beauty, there is little to match it anywhere in the world. The solemn ecstasy in the music of the Russian Orthodox Church can trace its roots back to the earliest days of Christian worship, via the great Byzantine Empire of the Near East. It presents an uncompromising search for peaks and depths of expressive fervor, aloof from all gimmicks. That was true of the music's multi-cultural roots as monastic chant, and was maintained as it evolved into full choral harmony in the late Romantic period.

Track Listing:

"Russian Cathedral Bells"

"Great Ektenia" Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, Op. 31 composed by Sergei Rachmaninov performed by The Russian State Symphony Cappela

"Hymn of Praise" Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Sergei Rachmaninov) performed by The Russian State Symphony Cappela

"Hymn of the Cherubim" (excerpt) Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, Op. 31 composed by Sergei Rachmaninov performed by The Russian State Symphony Cappela

"Hymn of the Cherubim" (excerpt) composed by Dimitri Bortniansky performed by The Leningrad Glinka State Academic Choir

"Our Father" composed by Nikolai Kedrov Sr. performed by Bulgarian National Choir

Fervent Supplication (excerpt) Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, Op. 31 written by Sergei Rachmaninov performed by The Russian State Symphony Cappela

"The Noble Jospeh" The Bulgarsky Rospev composed by P. Turchaninov performed by Men's Chamber Choir of Sofia

"Amen. And with Thy Spirit" Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom written by Peter Tchaikovsky performed by The USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir